Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Indian Author

Marc Jacobs

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

American Designer

Debbie Macomber

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.

American Author

Adrian Dunbar

I was really proud of the response to the first series of 'Blood.' Right from the get-go I knew it was a really good yarn and that it would have a chance if we got it right.

Irish Actor

Karen Allen

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

American Actress

Liam Cunningham

I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a good yarn at the very least.

Meg Tilly

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

David Brin

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Irwin Winkler

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

American Producer

John D. Voelker

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

American Writer

Yarn is commonly used in crafts such as knitting. It's not just for sewing.

Crafting Material

Yarn varies in texture. There are fuzzy, silky, and rough types, each for different projects.

Different Textures

Apart from texture, yarn comes in many colors and patterns, used for aesthetic appeal.

Colorful Choices

Using 'yarn' to describe a story is informal, implying a casual or friendly setting.

Informal Storytelling

Stories described as 'yarns' often contain exaggerations or humorous elements.

Exaggeration Expected

A 'yarn' is typically engaging, designed to capture and entertain the audience.

Engaging Narratives

 So at this point, I'm experiencing, or I'm witnessing something interesting. I may have started yarn bombing but I certainly don't own it anymore. It had reached global status. People from all over the world were doing this. And I know this because I would travel to certain parts of the world that I'd never been to,

How yarn bombing grew...

 and then from that, spin a yarn and then create a fabric or a rope. Again, bioderived, has incredible strength -- about the same as Kevlar -- so they're using it in things like bulletproof vests and helmets and outdoor jackets. It has a great performance. But again, it's bioderived, and at the end of its life,

To eliminate waste, we...

 My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from a woman who wrote and said that she had tried therapy, medication, she had tried pretty much everything, and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world, and that was making little things from yarn.

Depression, the secret...

 We can continue the search for the ingredients we love, and we can continue to spin yarns about our favorite meals. We'll reduce not only calories, but our carbon footprint. We can make food more important, not less, and save ourselves by doing so.

What's wrong with what...

 are the remains of those dense, dried out walls of cellulose. Tens of thousands of these fibers spun into yarn will go on to make everything from fabric, to coffee filters, diapers, and fishing nets. And with the help of modern science,

Why is cotton in...

 We worked with my collaborators, who were not engineers. It was an artisan who knows how to make things and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful. Working with them, we created one of the best yarns in the world,

Everything around you...

 is the low reproductive success partly because of the pollution issue you know when when the dolphin deep breath to the yarn delivers the milk and usually they will pass on the caustic substance to their feeding to

Pink Dolphins Are...

 digging away from its mother mother probably was killed and invited baby they put it in a case like this and then it's growing up in yarn and nobody's even giving it access to fresh water but

Caged Orangutan Rescued...

 but it reminds me of her storytelling and her imagination, her ability to spin yarns at this age -- preschool. A really important part of being a player is imaginative solo play.

Stuart Brown: Play is...

 sell these red color to them and then transform and shampoo and that's beautiful thing that won't use it and that's helped the yarn our beauty

Yarn

A long, thin piece of cotton, wool, or other fiber used in sewing or weaving.

Often appears as...

A long story that may be exaggerated or lies, often told in an informal situation.

Often appears as...

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